Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney
Ian Cheney
Occupation(s)	Director, producer

Ian Cheney is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer.[1]

Early life and education

Cheney grew up in Massachusetts[2] and Maine,[3] attended The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors,[4] and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998.[2] Cheney received bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University in 2002 and 2003.[5]

Career

He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in.[6] In 2011, he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment, becoming the youngest recipients to receive the Heinz Award.[7] Cheney received an Emmy nomination in 2013 for his film The City Dark, which aired on PBS' POV.[8]

Cheney's 2018 film, The Most Unknown, was released in theaters in May, then on Netflix in 25 languages in the summer,[9] and finally posted in nine individual episodes in YouTube.[10]

Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Maine.[11] He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.[12] He is the brother of poet Colin Cheney.[13]

His most recent film The Long Coast premiered at a virtual version of the Camden International Film Festival in October 2020.[14]

Filmography

• King Corn (2007), Co-creator, Co-producer, Cinematographer, Writer
• The Greening of Southie (2009), Director, Editor[15]
• Truck Farm (2011), Director[16]
• The City Dark (2012), Director[17]
• The Melungeons (2013), Director[11]
• The Search for General Tso (2014), Director[18]
• Bluespace (2015), Director  [19]
• The Smog of the Sea (2017), Director
• The Most Unknown (2018), Director [20]
• The Emoji Story (2019), Director  [21]
• Thirteen Ways (2019), Director [22]
• Picture a Scientist (2020), Director  [23]
• The Long Coast (2020), Director  [24]

References

1. "Ian Cheney". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
2. "Ian Cheney '98 – What's wrong with how America thinks of food?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
3. "Maine filmmaker has eyes on the skies". July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
4. "Meet & Eat: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis of Truck Farm, a Farm on a Truck". seriouseats.com. June 9, 2010. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020.
5. "Honolulu Screening of 'The City Dark' by Ian Cheney '02". Retrieved May 12, 2012.
6. "Complete List of 2008 Peabody Award Winners". Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
7. "The Heinz Awards: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis". The Heinz Awards.
8. "POV Films Nominated for 9 News and Documentary Emmy Awards". PBS. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
9. Spangler, Todd (April 20, 2018). "Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's 'The Most Unknown' Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
10. "The Most Unknown Available on Netflix, Youtube". Simons Foundation. August 24, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
11. Wicked Delicate Films
12. FoodCorps directors Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
13. "Colin Cheney: The City Dark". Retrieved April 18, 2019.
14. Keough, Peter (September 17, 2020). "At this year's Camden International Film Festival: surveying the Maine coast, tracking down Berlin Wall segments, and targeting suspects overseas - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
15. "The Greening of Southie". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
16. "Truck Farm". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
17. "The City Dark". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
18. "The Search for General Tso". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
19. "Bluespace". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
20. "The Most Unknown". IMDb. August 9, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
21. "The Emoji Story". Retrieved June 15, 2021.
22. "Thirteen Ways". Retrieved November 17, 2020.
23. "Picture a Scientist". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
24. "The Long Coast". Retrieved November 21, 2020.

External links

• Ian Cheney at IMDb